Directors and LMTP: mailAlternateAddress of same user [solved]

Paterakis E. Ioannis jpat at uoc.gr
Wed Oct 28 20:26:24 EET 2020


On 26/10/2020 8:54 π.μ., Vincent Brillault wrote:

> Dear Ioannis,
>
>> I've searched around for a solution to this, and figured out that a special
>> userdb {} section in the protocol lmtp {} section, with driver = ldap etc etc
>> so that i 'd be able to "show" the correct user to the lmtp might work, but
>> strangely that userdb {} setting looks like being ignored by lmtp.
> A very similar issue was discussed on IRC last Friday. userdb is indeed
> ignored on the director, as the different process are going through the
> special "director-userdb", which has nothing to do with the userdb you have
> define... The documentation
> (https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/user_databases_userdb/)
> was updated to make it cleaner.
>
> The solution is to use passdb instead. Use basically the same configuration as
> the one you have for userdb but for passdb. For the ldap configuration itself
> replace user_* by pass_*.

Dear Vincent hi,

thank you very much for your reponse. I'd already tried the passdb {} 
section, but i've missed the replacing of the user_* attributes in the 
ldap .ext file. Index corruptions are gone now!

Cheers

Ioannis




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